“I am as I am,And so is a stone;Them that don't like me,Must leave me alone.”
“Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.”
“People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.”
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
“Our lives are but a splash of water on a stone, nothing more. Then I am the stone on which they fell, and they have marked me. So beware, because I loved them, and they have marked me.”
“I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.”